Fun facts I just learned: Edwin Poots is a "young earth creationist" and he banned gay people from giving blood, saying he also thought no one should be able to give if they have had sex "with somebody in Africa or sex with prostitutes".

It's not that I doubt it could happen in the UK. It's the UK press that I doubt.

Having lived in Britain for several years, I would need more evidence that this is a thing before I believe it, other than one Indy article based on an email from someone who heard about this happening. The pictures are said to be all over Facebook but none are produced. I don't normally find it hard to believe in…

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This is a study which doesn't appear to have been published by any journal. There is probably a reason for that.

I'm going to both start and stop with the fact that airplanes are not law-free zones. The law of the country in which the plane is registered applies in international airspace.

8. is just wrong, as a matter of fact. In some times and places society has been extraordinarily effective at controlling premarital sex. Large parts of early modern Western Europe are a prime case. With the decline of the influence of the church in late eighteenth century France, for example, the illegitimacy and…

Just as long as Donnie isn't the one coming too soon . . .

Sorry, Erin, but you're wrong about this one. The BLS numbers include way more than the CPS.

Yes, the military is clearly the institution to cleanse misogyny from his soul.

The original article states that "The executive board had one woman member from the bank's founding in 1998 until Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell left in May 2011." Jezebel has taken this to mean "Since its founding in 1998, the ECB has had only one woman on its board — Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, who recently left in May…

Ignoring the ickiness of his post, I'm not sure that "a new calendar that will include characters from fantasy and sci-fi works by some pretty big (and mostly male) names)" is a true statement. 5 of the 12 authors (or 42%) are women. Dare I wonder if it was assumed that Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin were men?

Damnit, I thought this was going to be useful service journalism about what to do when your partner literally has cold feet in bed.

Under federal law, small businesses can operate in previous centuries, with the exact time depending on their size. Obamacare also doesn't apply the employer penalty to businesses with under 50 employees. Businesses with less than 20 employees are allowed to engage in age discrimination. With fewer than 15, you can…

Going to my first Hooters as a 13 year old boy was the biggest disappointment of adolescence. The food sucked and the waitresses's outfits were less revealing than most bathing suits. It was clear to me even then that the only way you could get a sexual charge out of it was by enjoying the experience of paying for it.

Le Parker Meridien is the best Scientology can do? I thought the whole point of being a celebrity Scientologist was to get the best stuff from life.

I am a man. Something similar, although not nearly so bad, happened once on a train I was on in England. The man doing the harassing was very very in shape and had another male friend with him. I was frozen at first, because I was scared, and I was wondering where my obligation to the woman began and my obligation to…

One man who agrees with you here.

Was Fat Vicky or Vicky in the store at that time?

He should be fired on the grounds that an educator must know that you can't be "beyond" the "highest".